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Series: Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics
This volume seeks to illustrate the fundamental role of language in political action, focusing on the war in Iraq. It combines quantitative methods, based on a sophisticated modular corpus that was queried through special software with the aim of identifying regularly occurring lexical and semantic...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics
Semantic Prosody is the first full-length treatment of semantic prosody, a concept akin to connotation but which connects crucially with typical lexical environment. For example, it has been claimed that the adverb 'utterly' is characterised by an unfavourable semantic prosody on account of its...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Discourse
Language plays a central role in creating and sustaining the market society—a society, that is, in which market exchange is no longer simply a process, but an all-encompassing social principle. The social domains affected include education, politics and religion. Around the world, government...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in Communication and Linguistic Theory
This book re-examines the old debate about the relationship between rationality and literacy. Does writing "restructure consciousness?" Do preliterate societies have a different "mind-set" from literate societies? Is reason "built in" to the way we think? How is literacy related to numeracy? Is the...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics
Queer linguistics has only recently developed as an area of study; however academic interest in this field is rapidly increasing. Despite its growing appeal, many books on ‘gay language’ focus on private conversation and small communities. As such, Public Discourses of Gay Men represents an...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Linguistics
This book comprises the first complete treatment of the Irish language in social context throughout the whole of Ireland, with a particular focus on contemporary society. The possibilities and limitations of the craft of language planning for the revival of the Irish language are outlined and the...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics
This book presents an alternative paradigm in understanding and appreciating World Englishes (WEs) in the wake of globalization and its accompanying shifting priorities in many dimensions of modern life, including the emergence of the English language as the dominant lingua franca (ELF). Chew...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics
In this book, contributors have been brought together to discuss the role of two major factors shaping the grammars of different varieties of English (and of other languages) all over the world: so-called vernacular universals and contact-induced change. Rather than assuming a general typological...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
For all that Cicero is often seen as the father of translation theory, his and other Roman comments on translation are often divorced from the complicated environments that produced them. The first book-length study in English of its kind, Roman Theories of Translation: Surpassing the Source...
To Be Published June 2nd 2013 by Routledge
